Specialist mezzanine finance for Sussex's developers

Development gap funding across the county of Sussex

Across the 10 Sussex towns we monitor, 1,284 residential units are moving through live planning applications, an estimated £547m of gross development value. Brighton recorded 2,900 sales in the last 12 months, while Horsham carries the county's strongest pricing at a median of £430,000.

That data is not decoration: it is how we underwrite. A mezzanine loan is a view on whether a scheme will sell at the price its appraisal claims, so we track every live application and recorded sale in the towns above before we price a Sussex deal. The same numbers are published openly in our UK development pipeline tracker, where Sussex currently ranks number 10 of 48 counties by pipeline value.

Sussex is divided into the two ceremonial counties of East Sussex and West Sussex. It features the South Downs National Park and a long coastline on the English Channel.

The product itself works the same in Sussex as everywhere we lend: your senior lender keeps first charge and funds the majority of cost, our mezzanine finance takes a second charge over the next slice, and your equity requirement falls, typically from 35 percent of cost to 5 or 10. Terms run 6 to 36 months with pricing indicatively from 12 percent a year, and a complete enquiry gets a term sheet inside 48 hours. Model your own scheme with the leverage calculator.

Sussex's development pipeline, measured

Monitored towns only; data refreshed 5 July 2026 from HM Land Registry and local planning authority records.

Where we lend in East and West Sussex

Horsham

1,284 units sit in Horsham's live planning applications, an estimated £547m of GDV. The median sold price over the last 12 months is £430,000 (flat 0% year on year), across 1,742 recorded sales. Schemes here are underwritten against that evidence, not against optimism.